Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!nddsun1!dover!wald From: wald@dover.tmc.edu (Steve Wald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: keyboard, mouse, hockey puck Summary: More gripes Keywords: keyboard placement click Message-ID: <914@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 02:18:51 GMT References: <1991Mar7.182805.7774@cs.umn.edu> Sender: root@nddsun1.sps.mot.com Reply-To: wald@dover.sps.mot.com (Steve Wald) Distribution: na Organization: Motorola, Inc., Advanced Paging Technology Lines: 27 In article don@zl2tnm.gp.co.nz (Don Stokes) writes: >... The problem with the 201 is that there is no >clear indication of when the key has been pressed, and the key's don't >stop but just get harder to press as you push them down. Ugh -- I've >used them for six years, and still hate them. I also find the mushy feel disagreeable, but I've found that turning on the key-click capability helps the feedback problem quite a bit. If the real history were told, you might find that audible key-click was provided as an afterthought for a poorly designed VT52 keyboard with no tactile feedback and there was too large of a user base to change things later. A far worse problem for me has been the placement of an extra key between the '" and RETURN. Whoever it was at DEC and/or SUN that decided this to be an acceptable place to put a key should be shot. I have to work on Macintoshes at work as well as this Decstation with its LK201, and I am forever hitting the back-slash instead of RETURN. To add insult to injury, the delete key must be pressed TWICE to delete the back-slash, it being an escape key for the DECterm. DEC would do well to provide an optional interface for third-party keyboards. -- Steve Wald Motorola Inc. wald@dover.sps.mot.com